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| Nigel Grummet New member Username: Grum Post Number: 1 Registered: 07-2004 |
Hi Bryce New to your software, and right pleased with it thus far. However, we have a system monitoring server that can send SMS alerts (via an SMS gateway) That works off a single command line. I have tried cURL, pavuk and WebGet as the command line executable with the parameters: program.exe http://servername/?PhoneNumber=xxxx&Text=Hello I have also tried variants on this theme - replacing the "&" with "%26", replacing the "=" with "%3D" (for the Text part), and I keep getting the same thing - the message is sent, but no text is sent along with it. When I enter the above URL parameters into IE, everything works fine, so the problem seems to be translation (or not) of the escape codes from a command prompt. Help! This is the critical factor that management want to see functional as a business case, and it strikes me that I'm just being blind and not seeing something obvious. Thanks in advance, Regards Nigel Grummet | |||
| Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Bryce Post Number: 3093 Registered: 10-2002 |
Hi Nigel, I haven't used any of those tools. But you might want to try the script in the following thread as an alternative: http://support.nowsms.com/discus/messages/1/5318.html -bn | |||
| Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Bryce Post Number: 3094 Registered: 10-2002 |
Nigel, Your message made me curious as to why a tool like cURL would not work. So I downloaded it to run some tests. Basically, the problem seems to be that Windows uses "&" as some sort of special character from the command line. I notice that Windows tries to run whatever is after "&" as a separate command. The way around this is to put quotes around the entire URL string. curl "http://host:port/?PhoneNumber=xxxx&Text=test+message" You should URL escape any of the data that is being passed as the phone number (usually only %2B for + is the consideration) or text (remember to replace spaces with + or %20). The other script that I pointed you to will perform the URL escaping automatically. -bn | |||
